4 CANADIAN BROADCAST STANDARDS COUNCIL GIVES SUN NEWS NETWORK A FREE PASS Then again, it’s about the only way SNN gets any attention, judging from its ratings.

5 MAYBE BIRKENSTOCKS AREN’T SO BAD AFTER ALL Last March Nike hurriedly pulled a shoe that was supposed to come out on St. Patrick’s Day: the ‘Black and Tan.’ (Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Irish history would have been stunned by this: the ‘Black and Tans’ were an auxiliary police force the British government recruited from First World War veterans to ‘police’ pre-independence Ireland the way soccer hooligans ‘police’ the supporters’ section) Not to be outdone, Adidas has halted delivery of sneakers that had something looking like shackles that would attach to people’s ankles, in the same way they used to chain slaves.

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Author: Stephen LaRose

2006 winner of the Canadian Association of University Teachers's Award of Excellence in Journalism for a bunch of prairie dog stuff. Invited into the best homes in Regina. Once.
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Not really, in my field of work I would like to know about this so-called booming economy everybody else is speaking of. (As well, though I was there for six months, I didn’t work long enough to receive Employment Insurance)